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Detail of a bearded iris (from my neighbor's garden).
250 image focus stack.
Illumination - window light with reflector for fill.
- Og Mandino.
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While I did not get a chance to get inside the park and do the scenic drive at Red Rock Canyon NCA, the viewpoint on Red Rock Canyon Road provided some expansive views of the Mountains that make the area special. I am not a geologist by any means, but even I could see the different types of rock formations as you scan the mountains. The moment I got here, I knew I wanted to take a panorama shot and didn’t even bother with my wide lenses and only took the 70-200 with meI ended up taking this image by stitching together around 7 or 8 pictures at 70mm. While I wanted to go even more tele, shooting at 70mm was the only way to include the clouds to the frame.
One interesting dilemma I faced at this location was keeping the frame level. Generally, I am a stickler for keeping the horizon level and going through pains to get the image leveled correctly. I also did that here, but when I stitched them together, they looked off so much that it bothered me. So I went back to google maps and looked at these rocks and realized that my images were indeed level, but the rock formations and their horizontal streaks mess with the eyes when you see it in a panorama image. So reluctantly, I had to rotate the image around 4-5 degrees to make it look more natural. I have to say this was the first time I have done something like this, and it felt weird.
This is a rather small flower on a 'Queen's tears' plant. The flowers come out of a pink casing rising up from the main plant, then cascade I suppose in these small heads. This one is about 1.5 inches long, so there is about an inch of it here. The background is just the leaves, but I could get those in focus, the flowers reach out of the leaves too far. Stacked image, with a little over exposure on the stamens after the focus stacking. Taken 26JAN25
A head on approach from this Shorty that barely fit in the frame. It's a rush when they come straight at you with that fast closing speed! Click for large view.
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Sunday Sliders
Even though these don't have much of a scent, they do smell of something: Show Pony:)
For this capture I knew the Duomo would always have people in front of it, so I used a long exposure to let the movement soften into something quieter. The cathedral remained sharp and still while the crowd became a gentle blur across the square. I composed the frame to give the architecture space to stand out without trying to erase the life around it.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from May 2017. Sometimes a square crop is needed to remove elements that distract from the story you see before you in the frame. Perhaps it can help us to appreciate the moment even more.
Congratulations to Ukraine for a well deserved Eurovision Song Contest win last night. It can be difficult to pull off a blend of traditional folk music and rap yet make it sound cohesive and modern - outstanding stuff. Congratulations also to Sam Ryder for a well deserved 2nd place in the contest. An awesome vocalist with a banging song can overcome perceived political voting, even for a UK entry! A few too many ballads were in the final for my taste but it was an awesome final as always.
Appreciate the moment.
Enjoy!
Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA
Entering from the East entrance into the Badlands, I asked my wife to pull over and let me snap this quick pic. Once I saw the dead tree on the side of the road I thought I might as well give this a shot. The storm clouds were coming in from the left of the frame but I couldn’t get it all in like I wanted. I think I have a shot like this from Joshua Tree that I really like. We saw literally one other couple during our first day in the park. It was surreal to say the least. Great area and I’m glad we ventured to it on a long weekend trip.
Mike D.
Macro-Mondays-Fill The Frame
This is one of the artificial flowers from the bouquet I put out on my Bistro table in the Fall.
with orange geum
a walk along Centenary Border at Hilliers Arboretum
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Caught in the act, arrested, and found guilty of beguiling people worldwide into indulging in sweets: the (in)famous Goldbear®, gummy bear by nature, criminal mastermind by design. Interrogations brought his cunning methods to light: a particularly lulling chanting technique called the "Nom chant®". It turns people into totally submissive underlings, nom®ing away without reason until the bag is empty. At least the convict had the grace to duly blush in shame of his evil deeds when his mugshot was taken.
This photo is quite similar to my "Grumpy Rainbow Bear" image (please see the first comment) that I took back in October 2020 for our "Translucent" theme, a "face to face" front view setup. I had this one idea which I was so sure would work out that I didn't start shooting before Sunday evening. You know what's coming. It. Didn't. Work. The glass bear in this image is a giant (in comparison with its tiny edible brothers and sisters) shaped like the original Haribo gummy bear. I have no idea what deluded me into thinking that I could make the shapes of real gummy bears visible if I placed them behind the glass bear's head. The glass bear's head is not only 4 cm / 1, 57 inches wide (which gives you an idea about the size of the frame), but also 3,5 cm deep: much too thick to see anything behind it except colours.
So what next? One lucky thing in this failed setup was that I needed something to put the gummy bears on to bring them to the right height with the glass bear's head. And for that, I randomly used the semi-transparent yellow washing liquid bottle lid that I use as a colour filter for my LED lamps. And all of a sudden the Goldbear® appeared... I had placed two red gummy bears behind the glass bear's head which created a nice blushing effect which gave me the idea for the short crime story. A happy ending? In a way, yes, but I wish I would stop repeating the same mistake over and over again: starting too late with the MM shooting ;)
One last question: What is your favourite gummy bear/ fruit jelly candy colour and flavour?
HMM, Everyone!
Happy almost weekend, everyone! Just a lil wisp of deviation from my countryside rambling, overflowing with dogs and horses images … but in complete honesty, my beloved bulldog, mini Boom was trotting along beside me even here … and I know it’s a shocker that he’s not jumping right into the frame! Of course, he’s not the most hyper of pups unless it’s a Saturday in the fall and then it’s game on! But alas, it’s the horrid off season. haha 🏈❤️🐾🐶
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View from Iidabashi Station (飯田橋駅) toward southwest with the stone base of Ushigome-mitsuke checkpoint (牛込見附) and the Sotobori moat installed with the railway tracks of Chuuou Line.
Two photos were merged to get this image.
Despite intensive urban development, this area retains the original appearance of the citadel and Sotobori. The road in the photo leads to the Tayasu-mon gate of Kitanomaru compound where Budokan is located.
Mitsuke (見附) is a gate with a checkpoint often combined with a bridge over the moat. There were 8 gates in Edo, which were called -mitsuke. Similar checkpoints were often called -mon (門 gate) like Kita Hanebashi-mon and Hirakawa-mon.
Sotobori had been the physical boundary of the Samurai area during the Edo Period, which almost overlaps the present-day Chiyoda City except for the Kanda area that was part of Shitamachi, the downtown and commoners' area.
The left half of this photo belongs to Chiyoda City. Shinjuku City across the moat in the right and Bunkyou City outside of the frame are located outside of Sotobori. I don't know which City Iidabashi Station belongs to.
It was a silly conduct that the local governments of Bunkyou
and Shinjuku Cities decided to fill a short section of the outer moat in the opposite direction of this photo despite its historical, architectural and cultural importance of the neighbourhood.
The highly tangled-up intersection as uploaded previously is also located on the opposite side of Iidabashi Station.
This is SOOC, but with a crop of the sky for composition purposes. I thought about doing some processing, but couldn't think of anything I'd want to change. This was taken Monday off I-25 so close to the Colorado New Mexico state line that I'm not sure which State I was in. At the top of the mountain, just about a half mile from here is the New Mexico DOT scale and inspection station. That's in Raton NM. I picked up my load earlier in Pueblo Colorado. Temperatures were in the mid 20's and light rain which turned to ice quickly. I stopped once and had a quarter inch of ice on my headlights. I hit it with the side of my fist and was able to break it up and remove. Windshield wipers had to be be banged against the windshield to get all the ice off them. So, you can imagine how icy the roads were. I saw two straight trucks (commercial trucks without trailers but with a cargo box attached on top of the frame) off the road and on their sides, as well as six personal vehicles that had slid off the highway. I saw one accident as it happened, an SUV spun out into the medium, but didn't look to have been damaged.
The good news for me, was as I got near New Mexico the roads were mostly dry, no rain or snow. Temperatures were still in the 20's but nice and warm inside the cab of my truck. I wouldn't have been able to pull over here for this picture if the roads had been icy or had snow, as this picture was taken on the steepest part of the climb.
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I looked at the weather forecast last night on my 'Clear Outside' weather app and the promise of mist until around 9am was predicted. I thought long and hard about where exactly I wanted to be and yet despite having shot Lake Bled on around five occasions recently, I really could not resist returning, not least because it's only a five minute drive for me.
However this morning I opted not to return to my usual vantage point, the wooden boardwalk, but to try and capture a selection of images that as others put it 'classic Nicholson'. So on arriving at the car park next to the campsite (3 EUR an hour, ouch), I wandered down to the wooden jetty opposite and set up the camera. There are a couple of beautiful, simple, wooden Pletna boats by the lakeside and so I started with them but noticed a couple of minutes later the rocks and wooden posts that line the edge of the walkway.
So I turned my attention to them while continuing to feature the iconic church island in the centre of the frame in the background. The mist was very prevalent which provided me with seemingly endless compositional possibilities. It is fair to say that I was in my element and I am never happier than when capturing images that are intrinsically mine in style.
The colour in the sky was subtle this morning but the church was visible for most of the time that I was there but I have a couple of images where it disappeared altogether. Once I had finished with this particular area, I drove up the road to another car park which allowed me a brisk ten minute walk down to the water's edge to photograph the island 'head on' as it was. The composition has the entrance to the island visible, along with the countless number of steps that take you up to the church but I shall share that another day.
To finish my morning's shoot, I took the steps to the Cafe Belvedere, which enjoys an elevated position over the lake and it gave me a lot of enjoyment watching life continuing below me. Pletna boats being powered by an electric motor around the lake, fishermen trying to land the odd fish or two in their small boats, and kayakers taking an early morning cruise around the island while ducks quacked, birds sang and life, in general, felt great. Oh, what a time to be out enjoying nature.
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Whyte Islet is a very small island on the shore of Howe Sound. People hike across the rocks to climb upon this hidden West Vancouver gem. Being aware of the changing tide is very important....the rocky path leading from the beach can quickly disappear when the tide comes in. Many people have been left stranded high and dry on this cute little island. The waterline indicates the water depth reached.
West Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada
Online information as follows.......
Coordinates:
49.374005°N 123.288832°W
15.63 hectares (0.1563 km2; 0.0603 sq mi)
Operated by:
District of West Vancouver
Status:
Open all year
Whytecliff Park is located near West Vancouver's Horseshoe Bay Neighbourhood, the original name of which was White Cliff City, which opened in 1909. In 1914, Colonel Albert Whyte pressed for the spelling change from White Cliff City to Whytecliff. The Whytecliff area is now distinct from Horseshoe Bay. The park, originally Rockcliffe Park, was developed by W.W. Boultbee in 1926, and a private access road was cut from the Marine Drive highway at Batchelor Bay.
The fifty acre Boultbee estate was purchased by the Union Steamship Company in 1939 and the company operated a Bowen Island Ferry from Whytecliff during 1939-41 and 1946-1952
The park is currently home to more than 200 marine animal species and is the first Marine Protected Area in Canada. Sea lions can be seen sunbathing on the beach during summer.
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Another largely unsuccessful attempt to photograph a Lyrid! One right on the edge of the frame. So much for the two thirds rule :)
I wonder what the view of this CG strike was like from the Ambassador Bridge, and is this potentially the first international lightning strike on Flickr? And yes that is my passenger window in the bottom of the frame. I had my tripod set up on my passenger seat to keep my camera out of the rain.
Windsor, Ontario/Detroit, Michigan
Ein Blick ins Innere einer zart rosafarbenen Tulpe
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Thema "Fill the frame" (with plants, flowers...) am 27.01.2025.
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For #MacroMondays and this week's theme #FillTheFrame
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The "Bozeman Bullet" making its way West on the 2nd Sub in some of the final rays of the day. Thank you horses for playing nice and not running out of the frame too soon.
Taken at Hillarys Marina at sunrise. Calm and sunny morning. I couldnt resist taking pictures of the moored boats and their reflections. I loved the framing of this shot.
Dangling the locket over the mirror I got this shot, erased the blue string from the bail and turn the frame horizontal rather than original vertical.
Parliament is in session!
The more I feel I progress in photographic pursuits, the more I am interested in creating setting images for the birds and wildlife I portray so instead of just “filling the frame” with the bird image per se I like to set a living scene. Hope you all like it.
Macro Mondays theme: fill the frame with plants.
This is one of the many succulents that have come into my home which I haven't killed yet. It is a tough one, that's for sure.
Thanks for your visit! HMM!
Focus stack (64 images). Shot with two off-camera strobes (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II L trigger). Flash A bare bulb, mounted on overhead boom, bounced off 32 inch white umbrella. Flash B camera right, 60 degrees, 30 degrees above subject, modified with MagMod MagSphere and MagMod MagGrid.
Shot for Macro Mondays theme fill the frame, plant
Subject, wild teasel seed head - area of image approximately 25mm (w), 20 mm (h)